Gamkrelidze Amiran
Professor
Direectori of the Institute for Global and European Health Education and Research
Doctor
Department of Public Health and Health Care Administration
School of Health Sciences
Tbilisi State Medical Institute - Allergology and Immunology - Doctor - - 1979-08-31
Institute of Immunology - Allergology and Immunology - Doctor - - 1990-01-01
Tbilisi State Medical Institute - Meicine - - 1968-01-09 - 1974-08-30
- 1984
- 1987
- 1987
- 1987
- 1996
- 1997
- 1998
- 1998
- 1998
- 2000
Investigaton of general and local humoral immunity parameters in patients with pollen allergy undergoing local immurotherapy - 2002
Laboraory diagnostics off allergic diseases - 2003
- 2019
Improving Maternal Healthcare in Georgia - 2019
Excellence in viral hepatitis elimination – Lessons from Georgia - 2019
Global Burden of Disease Health Financing Collaborator Network, Past, present, and future of global health financing: a review of development assistance, government, out-of-pocket, and other private spending on health for 195 countries, 1995-2050 - 2019
Scoping maternal care through the lens of maternal deaths: A retrospective analysis of maternal mortality in Georgia - 2020
Characteristics of discharged patients from hospitals - Georgian descriptive study - 2020
The burden and epidemiology of hepatitis B and hepatitis D in Georgia: findings from the national seroprevalence survey - 2020
Lessons Learned Through the Journey of a Medical Toxicologist While Characterizing Lead Hazards in the Republic of Georgia - 2020
Addressing lead exposure in children in Georgia: challenges and successes of a multi-agency response - 2020
- 2021
Multi-stakeholder perspectives on the strengthening and embedding of mandatory Continuing Medical Education in Georgia: a qualitative study - 2021
- 2022
A multinational Delphi consensus to end the COVID-19 public health threat - 2022
Variation in the COVID-19 infection–fatality ratio by age, time, and geography during the pre-vaccine era: a systematic analysis - 2022
Estimating excess mortality due to the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic analysis of COVID-19-related mortality, 2020–21 - 2022
Risk factors and genotype distribution of hepatitis C virus in Georgia: A nationwide population-based surve - 2022
Advancing blood transfusion safety using molecular detection in the country of Georgi - 2023
Nationwide hepatitis C serosurvey and progress towards HCV elimination in the country of Georgia. 2021 - 2023
SARS CoV 2 infection during pregnancy and risk of adverse maternal outcomes in Georgia - 2023
Impact of Hepatitis C Virus Infection and Treatment on Mortality in the Country of Georgia, 2015–2020 - 2023
Nationwide Hepatitis C Serosurvey and Progress Towards Hepatitis C Virus Elimination in the Country of Georgia, 2021 - 2023
Relationship Between Hepatitis C Infection and Treatment Status and Coronavirus Disease 2019–Related Hospitalizations in Georgia - 2024
Hepatitis C virus attributable liver cancer in the country of Georgia, 2015–2019: a case–control study - 2024
Implementing a pilot study of COVID-19 self-testing in high-risk populations and remote locations: results and lessons learnt - 2024
Anemia during pregnancy and adverse maternal outcomes in Georgia: a birth registry–based cohort study - 2025
Evaluating a Research Training Program in Environmental Health and Noncommunicable Diseases in Georgia - 2025
Road Map to Viral Hepatitis Elimination: A Decade of HCV Progress and the Launch of HBV Control Efforts in Georgia - 2025
- 01-01-2002
XIII international congress of allergology and clinical immunology (ICACI) - 01-09-2002
Communicable disease - 09-04-2019
Equity in Health - 10-06-2019
Public Health - 03-12-2019
Global Health - 03-05-2023
International Forum on Children’s Environmental Health - 11-10-2023
Seminar on Building Resilient Public Health and Health Care Systems - 19-12-2023
Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response - 18-12-2024
TB Surveillance - 10-06-2025
Enforcement of 100% smoke-free policy in healthcare institutions and secondary schools of Georgia - 2011-2014
Environmental factors influencing the prevalence and time trends of allergy symptoms among schoolchildren in Georgia” for fundamental research - 2012-2013
Outdoor Aeroallergens and Asthma in Georgia: Association of Daily Exposures with Respiratory Symptomes In Sensitized Patients - 2015-2017
Building Supportive Environment for the Enforcement of Effective Tobacco Control Tax and Price Measures in Georgia - 2015-2017
Doctoral Program in Public Health: Norwegian Experience of Third Cycle Study - 2015-2021
Protecting and Improving Health Globally: Sthengthening Public Health through Surveillance, Epidemiologic Research Capacity in Georgia - 2015-2022
Supporting endorsement and enforcement of strengthened legislation on tobacco demand reduction in Georgia in order to meet WHO FCTC requirements - 2016-2017
Relationship between pollen allergies and Covid-19 in Georgian patients - 2019-2021
Exploring of sensitization patterns of Cypress allergy in Georgia - 2022
The Clean Air Research and Education (CARE) - 2022-2026
Bioethics and Health Legislation-PHMA6150 (
2006/2007;
)
Global Health-MPHP 5210 (
2022/2023;
2023/2024;
2024/2025;
)
Research-PHDH8110 (
2020/2021;
2021/2022;
2022/2023;
2023/2024;
2024/2025;
)
education practice-PDPR 7217 (
2025/2026;
)
Public health and Global healthcare-PHDH7210 (
2022/2023;
2023/2024;
2024/2025;
)
Public Healthcare and Policy-MPHP 5110 (
2024/2025;
)
Public Health and Health care Policy-PHMA5110 (
2011/2012;
2015/2016;
2016/2017;
)
Master Thesis in Public Health-PHMA6250 (
2008/2009;
2010/2011;
)
education practice-PDPR 7217
Professor Amiran Gamkrelidze is a physician, researcher, public health expert and professor at the University of Georgia, School of Health Sciences, currently serving as Director of the Global and European Health Education and Study Institute and Scientific Adviser of Georgian Center of Allergy and Immunology.
He holds an MD and PhD in medical sciences. He is a distinguished global public health leader with more than four decades of experience in public health policy, global health, allergy and clinical immunology, and health system governance.
From 2013 to 2022, Professor Gamkrelidze served as Director General of the National Center for Disease Control and Public Health of Georgia, playing a central role in strengthening national public health preparedness and response. Previously, he held senior governmental positions, including Minister of Labour, Health and Social Affairs of Georgia (2001–2004) and First Deputy Minister (1997–2001). He was a visiting professor at the UiT Arctic University of Norway (Tromsø, Norway) and Tbilisi State Medical University. His previous roles include Director of the National Healthcare Management Center, academic appointments at the University of Linköping in Sweden, and the Institute of Clinical Immunology at Friedrich Schiller University in Germany.
Professor Gamkrelidze has extensive international experience, having worked as WHO Country Program Coordinator in Georgia (2005–2013) and as a long-standing participant in WHO governing bodies, expert committees, and policy initiatives, including contributions to the WHO European Health 2020 policy. He was a member of the WHO European Advisory Committee for Health Research (EACHR), served on the WHO Standing Committee of the Regional Committee for Europe (2015-2018) and have been a Chair (2018). Additionally, he was a member of the WHO Global Coordination Mechanism on the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases, Innovation for Non-communicable Diseases, expert of WHO Europe meetings on Social Determinants of Health (2006-2007), WHO Europe Technical Advisory Group member on the development of the Strategy and Action Plan on health emergency preparedness, response, and resilience (Preparedness 2.0) in the WHO European Region 2023-2024, Concord-Lancet Global Commission on Cancer since 2024, and a ,ember of Independent Expert Group on the Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) Accountability Index (WHO European Region), including 2026.
Dr. Gamkrelidze has been an active participant in numerous global health forums and has served as a keynote speaker at numerous international and national conferences and academic institutions in the UK, USA, France, Sweden, Norway, Germany, Italy, and beyond.
Dr. Gamkrelidze serves on the editorial boards of several scientific journals, including the World Allergy Organization Journal, Allergo Journal (Germany), Georgian Medical News, and the Georgian Respiratory Journal. He is also a member of prestigious professional associations such as the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, the German Association of Allergology and Clinical Immunology, and the Georgian Association of Allergology and Clinical Immunology.
His academic, scientific, and expert work focuses on global and public health, in healthcare field, oriented on COVID-19 response, health systems strengthening, hepatitis C elimination, non-communicable diseases, tobacco, environmental health, allergy and clinical immunology, and health policy.
Dr. Gamkrelidze has authored or co-authored over 150 scientific publications.
